ASSIGNMENT TWO AND GEOLOCATION

JN3800

DEADLINE: 5pm, 13th

December 2013

The story so far

All multimedia elements covered Images Text (writing for the web) Video Data Audio Mapping (covered this

afternoon and tomorrow)

First assignment completed

Assignment 2: What the MIP says 3 skills tests: video, mapping

and data (80%)

Editorial mark (80%) Newsworthiness Choice of interviewees Interview technique Content presentation and

chunking Social Media engagement and

distribution Demonstrating an awareness

of digital publishing styles Originality Writing for the web Newswriting/grammar Overall multimedia

implementation

But what is a multimedia package?

There’s a wide range of examples of what a multimedia package could be:

Standard news story and feature with

multimedia elements EXAMPLE

Immersive and/or long form content EXAMPLE and EXAMPLE

Video/Audio lead piece with supporting text (and other media not included here) EXAMPLE

Immersive geolocated ‘experience’ EXAMPLE

Timeline EXAMPLE

What is a multimedia journalism package? Consider the story and the

form

It is not a 1st person reflection on the process

It can be a ‘hard news’ story

A more informal ‘blog’ or soft feature

An investigation around a theme containing a number of perspectives or media elements

Order of content

Consider structure and how your multimedia is placed around a blog post or a collection of individual pages

Consider: What your strongest news point

is/or most compelling hook

What your readers first encounter on your page

What is your strongest multimedia element (both in terms of quality and in terms of relevance to your story)

Make the most of the ‘good stuff’

Interviews: the long and the short of it (audio and video) Vox populi: voices and talking

heads can add a richness to a multimedia piece. Vox pops are short and punch. One

question, and a range of answers EXAMPLE

A longer interview can be compelling and engaging. By covering more in-depth ground, your audio is performing a different task to a “simple” vox pop.

A lengthy and ‘mediated’ can add value to your overall piece. You may script some of the links, allowing multiple voices to appear and you join them together

LINKING STRATEGY: Remember the link economy

Hyperlinks are a central part of the web and digital literacy

Use them to provide a valuable resource to your reader Link to other websites for additional

information Link to your own editorial to construct

a self-referential structure and create added value

Link to other platforms where your content may be found

Don’t overlink

Do link: layer the content and act as an authority (but not gatekeeper)

(note: raw URL addresses are ugly)

DIGITAL COMMUNITIES

Have you harnessed digital communities for

Leads and ideas

Contacts and interviews

Data and visualisations

Opportunities to distribute your content

Opportunities to reach different audiences

Multiplatform multimedia

Consider different platforms to host your content Flickr Vimeo Instagram Facebook YouTube

What do you need to do to maximise ‘reach’. Think about ‘discoverability’. Include: Descriptions Tags

Questions?

Geolocation Increasingly being used to assist with storytelling

Mapping Social sharing apps such as foursquare Beginnings of augmented reality Gathering and verifying citizen journalism from around the world

Can present information in an alternative way: uniting fragmented narrative into a cohesive whole

Smartphones and cameras now equipped with GPS capabilities: providing the data required to map images

Visualisation tools allow both the display of information data, and provide users with opportunity to manipulate it Tools include Google Drive/spreadsheets. Google Fusion Tables Tableau Public

Development of open source mapping tools to allow a digital community to coalesce and input data

Geolocation and mapping

Create visual impact

Uses open data to create new interaction and storytelling opportunities

Can combine with other data to create mash-ups

News organisations have been doing this for a while

Can produce fascinating tools

Avoids dull text

Embedded video (although this function is not currently available on Google Maps classic)

Publish original data

Good tool for local and hyperlocal sites

Man-made Google maps

Offer a range of symbols to aid understanding

Route mapping and road tracking

Video and image integration (within certain constraints).

How to create a Google Map Go to Google Maps and log in

Click my places

Click Create Map: Classic allows a basic embed function

Begin to fill in fields

Questions…

Key questions to ask yourself before making a map

Does it add value to your story?

Does it make information more understandable?

Could the data be expressed in a more effective way? (examples include graphs, timelines, pie charts and tables)

Key questions to ask yourself after making a map

Does the data tell the story in the way you intended?

Is it understandable?

Is your piece stronger with it than without it.

Seminar

What

Take one news stories from any news-based publisher in the UK that has a strong ‘where’ element

Create a custom google map and place relevant images, text and hyperlinks on the map. The bubble content must contain a link to a website version of the article The bubble content must also contain one additional link to a website related to the story.

Create a new blog post on your blog and embed your google map in the post with some explanatory text.

 How

The choice of articles is up to you but you should obviously look for those with a strong ‘where’ element. The creation of a Google map should be straightforward but you should explore the options available such as custom icons to effectively communicate your story.

Google maps – classic

https://maps.google.com/

DATA GATHERING: MAPPING- OPEN A NEW GOOGLE SPREADSHEET- USING THE =IMPORTHTML() FORMULA FROM LAST WEEK, SCRAPE THE LIST OF CHELSEA PLAYERS FROM- HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/LIST_OF_CHELSEA_F.C._PLAYERS

DATA GATHERING 1- CAN YOU ANSWER?- WHAT COUNTRIES HAVE THE PLAYERS COME FROM AND HOW MANY?

=ImportHtml("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chelsea_F.C._players", "table",1)

DATA GATHERING 1 - COUNT THE UNIQUE ENTRIES USING:=UNIQUE ({START CELL:ENDCELL})

E.G =UNIQUE(B2:B166)- COUNT THE NUMBER OF TIMES EACH ENTRY IS MENTIONED USING:=COUNTIF({START CELL:ENDCELL}, {VALUE})E.G =COUNTIF(B2:B166, I3)

SEE THIS IN ACTION AT HTTP://BIT.LY/JN3800DATACHELSEA

CAN YOU MAKE..?A HEATMAP OF YOUR COUNTRY TABLE